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Where do I get one of those stickers?
posted by
WriterofLight
on June 11, 2005 at 8:37 PM
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No More 'Scuses!!
Richard Speck was, "only human." Same with Charlie Manson. Same with Mohandas Ghandi. Saying, "we're only human," is a platitude that doesn't mean anything.
I don't mean to condemn every knuckle-dragging fascist out there to a land of eternal guilt and shame.
But I do have a sense of history and I do remember what I used to feel about my country. I ain't feelin' it anymore. Can you feel me?
Three years in the economic doghouse will do that to anyone. Steel workers had 130 years of tall cotton and then, poof! IT workers had 20 years of the same before it all blew up in our self-centered, nerdy faces. We put people out of work without giving a thought to whether we SHOULD or not. "It's better, it's cheaper, it's good!" was our mantra.
Well, now we're all getting replaced by the newer, cheaper models overseas. And it isn't any fun to be working your tail off for a company only to find out that you've been technologically land-locked for so long that you are an anarchronism waiting to find an unemployment line to happen.
posted by
Volaar
on June 7, 2005 at 7:01 PM
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Oh, C'mon...
...no one on the fringes (as most of us are) really believes that they are a party to despotic evil. If they did I could feel it and move away from it right away.
Most people are dunder-heads. This guy was no exception. Most of the Texans I have met are good people who really are too naive to be a party to the evil ones.
I wasn't making excuses FOR him, I was making them FOR me. There's a difference between an experience of ignorant arrogance and one with calculated evil. Calculated evil is a cool, cold indifferent pair of eyes. Evil is always looking at you like a predator looks at its prey. When someone pisses me off, it's generally because I have been guilty of the same defect as they are and have yet to surrender the issue for healing.
How many times did we torment these luddites with all of our quaint bumper stickers, some of them highly provocative, some of which made absolutely no sense at all?
We need to be able to engage the many, even some of the despots. It's good information. Transcendence isn't about avoidance, it's about seeing something for what it is and getting beyond it. That's all I'm trying to do here. Anger is a dubious luxury of more normal people. I can't afford it, very literally.
Exceptional people extract the good from every experience, no matter how irritating, and evolve. There just aren't alot of exceptional people out there on either side of the values spectrum. And the continuum I am seeing as it relates to my take on this discussion is, "humans need love and nurturance," versus, "humans need to be herded and managed like cattle."
The truth of the matter is liable to be squarely in the middle of two extreme values.
posted by
Volaar
on June 7, 2005 at 5:14 PM
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Volar
Nothing is perfect in this world, but if you take a good look around at other countries...well, we're pretty darn good. Yep, we make mistakes, but we are afterall, only human..
posted by
Offy
on June 7, 2005 at 5:03 PM
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Volaar
Oh, yes they do...they know exactly what they are doing,and they need to be stopped.
posted by
Numinous
on June 7, 2005 at 4:57 PM
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ignorance is not an excuse
Love, Vib
posted by
Vibrance
on June 7, 2005 at 4:40 PM
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